Velvet – How to Win at Musical Sacks!

December 5, 2017Posted inVelvet
3/4/98     One of the Kansas City Regional Fox Trotter club’s favorite game for a FUN horse show EVENT is musical sacks. There are some horses in our club that stomp on the sack when they get close. They’ve probably been trained to do that. I thought I would offer the readers of this Corner Page, a natural horsemanship training strategy to prepare for musical sacks. Musical sacks is played just like musical chairs, except the horses must step on the feed sack. We generally double the feed sacks.…

Riding Velvet is ah sigh so Good

December 5, 2017Posted inMiscellaneous, Velvet
I decided to ride Velvet for a while at Pine Dell Farm every evening that it was in the high 20's to 30's.  Ah, life is good with an highly trained finished horse. I just might be over my mad desire to have a young horse to finish every 5-8 years or so.  It's fun to get Velvet and I back into coordination.

Lord Help Me Jesus

December 5, 2017Posted inVelvet
Velvet brought me one step closer to redemption.  I don't believe I've ever felt the need to scream outloud my need for Jesus to save me.  I've had the thought many times, but I kept it internal.  I've had conversations wtih Jesus and God before, but no one got to listen in.  Velvet, the trained cow horse, got me to scream for help for all to hear. Everyone in the cow clinic and all the auditors and probably the neighbors heard me scream, "Lord Help Me Jesus!" Velvet took over…

Remember the Lessons Velvet Taught You, Susan

November 1, 2016Posted inVelvet
Why did Velvet canter every time I asked her to leg yield at a lesser gait.  We were walking, I asked her to leg yield and she tried to canter.  We were in the next gait up, I asked her to leg yield and she tried to canter.  Then I realized I was asking her to leg yield with force in my legs.  I remembered that I thought about the difference between a cue and asking for a faster gait. I've been thinking the same thing about Cisco lately.  How…

Phoenix and Let Me Ride Your Horse

June 17, 2016Posted inCountry Frank's Lucky Star, Miscellaneous, Velvet
I was like this!!  I rode other people's horses in my young adult formative years. Long long ago in the 70's, visiting in Walsenburg, Colorado, I paid a cowboy to ride his horse. This wasn't a rental horse situation.  This guy rode horses as part of his job, probably cows.  I got on his horse and rode out into the dessert, just me and the horse. I came back and rode around his property, because it was just a little boring out there in the dessert scrub. The cowboy seemed…

2013 Celebration High Point and World Grand Champion Winners

September 7, 2013Posted inCaitlyn Vaught, Jennifer Vaught, Missouri Fox Trotter, Nichole Copple, NOVA, Powder, Tony Vaught, Velvet
VERSATILITY OVERALL PLACINGS Youth Versatility: Pleasure & Speed High Point: Toddy's Velvet Perfection; Nichole Copple for Susan & Terry Engle, Pleasant Hill Mo Working Horse High Point: Co-High points Toddy's Velvet Perfection, Nichole Copple for Susan & Terry Engle, Pleasant Hill MO Nathan's Ovation, Caitlyn Vaught for Susan & Terry Engle, Pleasant Hill MO Youth Versatility World Grand Champion Toddy's Velvet Perfection, Nichole Copple, Fair Play Mo for Susan & Terry Engle, Pleasant Hill Mo Youth Versatility Reserve Wold Grand Champion Playboy's Lookie Here Now, McKenna Flory, Wallsburg UT for…